This page covers what you can count on from this site and some practical habits that keep gambling a form of entertainment. It does not replace help from people who work on gambling harm.
Reach Independent Help Whenever You Need It
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to six independent gambling-help organisations. They are the same on each page, so you can find them from wherever you are reading.
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- GAM STOP
- NCPG
These are the only outbound links on the site that are not commercial. Unlike the operator links, they carry no sponsored marking. They are set to nofollow and open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website. This site receives nothing when you follow one.
Keep It Adults-Only
The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page.
- Nobody's age is verified here, and no gambling takes place on this site. Any check of that kind happens at the destination you choose to visit.
- If a younger person shares your device, keep your gambling accounts signed out and your passwords private.
Set Your Own Boundaries Before You Play
Controls such as deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are things you arrange inside your own account at the destination. This site has no account, no form and no server-side application, so nothing published here can switch one on, check one or enforce one. The habits below work wherever you play.
- Decide the amount before you start. A figure chosen while you are calm holds up better than one chosen mid-session, when wins and losses change how you judge risk.
- Treat that amount as already spent. If you think of it as the price of an evening's entertainment, you are not counting on getting it back, and a loss does not feel like a debt to recover.
- Never chase a loss. Raising stakes to win back money does not change the odds. It only increases how much you can lose, and it usually happens at the moment your judgement is weakest.
- Keep borrowed money out of it. Credit, loans or money set aside for bills turn a lost bet into a repayment that lasts long after the session ends.
- Take breaks. Time passes quickly during play. Stepping away regularly lets you check your spending and decide on purpose whether to continue.
Bring Someone In Early
Gambling can stop being entertainment gradually rather than all at once. Talking to someone before it feels serious is easier than waiting until it is.
- Warning signs include hiding how much you play, feeling restless when you cannot play, or gambling to escape stress.
- A trusted friend or family member can notice changes that are hard to see in yourself, and they can help you stick to the limits you set.
- The independent organisations listed above are another place to start. Their links are on this page and on every other page of the site.
- No advertising or behavioural profiling network is present in these pages, so nothing here is aimed at a reader who has shown risky behaviour. That choice still rests with you, and so does reaching out.